Quantum Computing
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Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Systems subsidiary is to offer customers cloud access to IBM quantum computers. -
Fujitsu and Osaka University say they have made a significant breakthrough in quantum computing.
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Equinix is to install a quantum computer in Tokyo and make it available to businesses worldwide.
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A new Cisco-sponsored centre at the University of Edinburgh is to research quantum computing, artificial intelligence and cyber security.
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Quantum Motion, a UK-based quantum computing scale-up led by academics from UCL and Oxford University, has raised over £42 million in equity funding.
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An Australian start-up has raised US$18 million to develop miniaturised quantum computers that it believes are capable of solving complex problems.
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A quantum computing company co-founded by a winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for physics has raised €100 million in funding.
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The end of current techniques used to encrypt data traffic might be closer than most people think, according to a mathematical paper from China.
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Oxford Ionics, which is developing proprietary electronics for quantum computing, has raised £30 million in Series A funding.
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IBM has formed an alliance with Helsinki quantum software company Algorithmiq, a US$4 million start-up.
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ColdQuanta has raised US$110 million in funding from private equity and other investors, including Sumitomo and former Motorola chairman and CEO Chris Galvin, who has joined the company’s board.
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The science arm of the Australian state of Victoria is taking a stake in quantum computing company ColdQuanta to set up a new research unit in Melbourne.
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Professor Tim Spiller of the Quantum Communications Hub speaks to Natalie Bannerman about the role of quantum in communications and innovations enabling it.
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BT is set to play a significant role as quantum technology develops. Andrew Lord, senior manager of optical research at BT, talks about the company’s quantum R&D, QKD and the quantum internet
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Pioneers in quantum technology are working with integrated circuit makers to deliver the quantum’s benefits in volume and lower its costs, Alan Burkitt-Gray writes.
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Pioneering UK companies in the quantum computing and security industry have set up a lobby group, UKQuantum, to be a “voice for the sector”.
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The GSMA has set up a taskforce to look at the impact of quantum technology on the mobile industry and to help define quantum-era policy and regulations.
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Data centre colo and interconnection company Cyxtera is to give more than 2,300 customers access to quantum computers after a deal with Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC).
